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To illustrate how the once-critical Caracas daily El Universalhas cozied up to Venezuela's socialist government in the wake of its sale in July, it helps to examine the newspaper's coverage of the current oil price plunge.

At a bizarre news conference in April, Bolivia's Communications Minister Amanda Dávila claimed that journalist Raúl Peñaranda, who was born in Chile, represented a dangerous "beachhead" for Chilean interests trying to deny landlocked Bolivia access to the Pacific.

With its low budget décor and grainy images, EUTV has the look and feel of small-town community television. But the Web-based TV station that went live on November 18 has much larger ambitions: It intends to be the primary source for Venezuelans who covet independent television news.

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Many state media in Latin American are used for
political propaganda, but the Venezuelan government has built an unprecedented
media empire that it uses to attack critics and independent journalists and
obscure issues like crime and inflation. By
Carlos Lauría

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New York, July 30, 2012--The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by a death threat made Sunday
against Lydia Cacho, the Mexican investigative reporter and author, and calls on
federal authorities to launch a thorough investigation.

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In some Latin American countries, state-owned media are used not only for propaganda but as platforms to smear critics, including journalists. Some elected leaders have even invested in large multimedia holdings to further their agendas. By Carlos Lauría